Hi,
Thanks for the tips. Usually My average -compressed- backup size is ~100Gb per night and takes ~6 hours. I start at ~0100, so backups are usually done before 0700. The nights where the backup extends a few hours longer is when it's backing up some shares on older Windows machines.
-B
At 10:39 AM 8/26/2004, Paul Bijnens wrote:
Robert Tilden wrote:
Is there any way to specify the order machines are backed up in? I'd like to back up laptops first in the process so that if the backups extend into the business day the laptops don't disappear before being backed up.
I forgot one thing: you can postpone some of the servers using the dumptype option "starttime". If you set those on all but the laptops, then you can hope that the laptops have started their backups before the others.
If backups really extend into the business day, you should find out where the bottlenecks are in the config. Use "amplot" for this. Tip: a very large holdingdisk really helps a lot.
-- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation
Bob Tilden, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
High Energy Physics Group
Northwestern University
